eBay Affiliate Program Commissions Doubled

[digitalpoint]

For those of you participating in the eBay affiliate program, you will be glad to hear eBay is raising commission payouts (by a lot too).

New User Active Registrations:

Old:
1 - 249 = $5 each
250 - 499 = $8 each
500 - 999 = $10 each
1,000 - 1,999 = $13 each
2,000 - 4,999 = $14 each
5,000 - 9,999 = $15 each
10,000+ = $16 each

New:
1 - 249 = $10 each
250 - 499 = $13 each
500 - 999 = $16 each
1,000 - 1,999 = $17 each
2,000 - 4,999 = $18 each
5,000 - 9,999 = $19 each
10,000+ = $20 each


Bids/Buy Now:

Old:
1 - 1,499 = $0.05 each
1,500 - 4,999 = $0.07 each
5,000 - 19,999 = $0.08 each
20,000 - 49,999 = $0.10 each
50,000 - 199,999 = $0.11 each
200,000 - 499,999 = $0.12 each
500,000 - 749,999 = $0.13 each
750,000+ = $0.15 each

New:
1 - 999 = $0.10 each
1,000 - 4,999 = $0.12 each
5,000 - 19,999 = $0.15 each
20,000 - 49,999 = $0.18 each
50,000 - 199,999 = $0.20 each
200,000 - 499,999 = $0.23 each
500,000 - 749,999 = $0.24 each
750,000+ = $0.25 each

I would imagine that should push the top eBay affiliate (which already makes $1.4M/month) above the $2M/month range. Also it basically doubles the commission for people on the lower tiers.

[schlottke]

Thats my kind of increase- time to start working for ebay..

[mxlabs]

looks good. but means even more ebay spam on the SEs ;)

[raymond]

I wouldn't try to spam anyone, but, how do you spam e-bay? :eek:

[disgust]

he didn't mean spamming ebay. he meant setting up "spam" sites on search engines to get people signed up.

.. I think. :)

[raymond]

do you get paid to sign people up for e-bay? :rolleyes:

[digitalpoint]

Yes, look at the New User Active Registrations above... ($10-$20 each)

[TwisterMc]

Well how do i get in on this cash. ;)

[digitalpoint]

Signup for the eBay affiliate program, and refer people who want to use eBay to them.

[mopacfan]

Is there really anyone out there left in the world that is not signed up with ebay? ;)

[digitalpoint]

That was my thought at first too... but there are. :)

[TwisterMc]

new people are born every day. ;)

[eCommando]

Does ebay also give residual income from people who register from you?
I wonder if that's how those people are making $1.4 Mil plus a month. They have many people who signed up under them.

[digitalpoint]

They pay for bids (if they click through you).

[vprp]

I don't think eBay offers residual income. That's the amazing part. Even for bids. For an affiliate to receive a commission, someone has to click through from their Web site each time they submit a bid. They don't store cookies or anything that can credit you for a bid later. I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure this is how their program runs.

[Help Desk]

If you offer a good service, then the user will always click through you.

InformationWeek just came out with an article about Amazon and Ebay. Amazon plans on opening up its web services even more. Keep an eye on my <shameless self promotion> Amazon Data Stream (http://www.thinkbling.com).

[digitalpoint]

I don't think eBay offers residual income. That's the amazing part. Even for bids. For an affiliate to receive a commission, someone has to click through from their Web site each time they submit a bid. They don't store cookies or anything that can credit you for a bid later. I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure this is how their program runs.
They do use a cookie... they have a 30 day cookie for affiliates.

[raymond]

Nice to know. Thanks! :p

[a389951l]

This is great news. While ebay is not a huge part of my income stream, every little bit counts!

[digitalpoint]

I don't really understand why eBay keeps raising their affiliate program payout, but they are doing it again, so it's fine by me (especially since I rank #1 for ebay registration because of a little experiment I did). :)

New User Active Registrations:

Old (before the summer):
1 - 249 = $5 each
250 - 499 = $8 each
500 - 999 = $10 each
1,000 - 1,999 = $13 each
2,000 - 4,999 = $14 each
5,000 - 9,999 = $15 each
10,000+ = $16 each

Current (until October 31):
1 - 249 = $10 each
250 - 499 = $13 each
500 - 999 = $16 each
1,000 - 1,999 = $17 each
2,000 - 4,999 = $18 each
5,000 - 9,999 = $19 each
10,000+ = $20 each

Starting November 1:
1 - 249 = $12 each
250 - 499 = $16 each
500 - 999 = $20 each
1,000 - 1,999 = $24 each
2,000 - 4,999 = $26 each
5,000 - 9,999 = $28 each
10,000+ = $30 each

[TwisterMc]

Dang, how nice!

[T0PS3O]

The backlinks to that ebay registration of yours don't show in the cache. Where are they?

[digitalpoint]

The backlinks to that ebay registration of yours don't show in the cache. Where are they?
It's sort of like the ad network.

[Such Great Heights]

nice jump in pay .. although not doubled like last time. :)

I'm still in the 1-249 range for bids. so I got a ways to go.
Did they raise the payout for bids as well?

Nice job on the eBay registration keyword.

[digitalpoint]

No, the bid/buy it now payout is still the same.

[lorien1973]

I did not realize ebay affiliates got paid on bids too - I thought it was only on new signups. No wonder so many people buy a million different adwords.

[Cartman]

Never even knew eBay had an affiliate program, looks like it's time to join! :)

[Solicitors Mortgages]

Nice one Shawn....i hope you paid $$$$'s for that...optimized it..worried about the page design.....colour layout..etc....got 30,000 backlinks for it,,,registered it with DMOZ ,,posted it with keyword rich back-links in as many places as poss...and a partridge in a pear tree !

shame ebay cant be top for "ebay registration"

You ARE THE DADDY !!!
regards GEM

[mudnik]

Shawn,
I'm just curious. People actually sign up from that page? With so much phishing going on nowadays, I wouldn't.

[THT]

have they upped UK commissions too?

[john_loch]

Actually, I gotta say those figures you posted are rather juicy looking..

I may yet hop on the ebay wagon :)

[anton-io!]

Where can one find who is in the top 10 for eBay affiliates? Dig more in CJ?

[THT]

shawn,
youve said before your makng a bit from ebay

is that from registration or bids?

[Such Great Heights]

A bit? HA!

It has to mostly be registrations ... ok not more than 50%, but the bulk of the money coming from eBay affil comes from registrations in general.

$12.00 per signup
$0.10 per bid or "Buy It Now"

And I am sure shawn is in a higher tier so he is getting slightly more per signup now.

[Tom Brown]

I want to see this top Ebay affiliates Website that makes over 1 million a month. Does anybody know where it is? How are they advertising and what are they advertising to get people to join Ebay?


Tom

[Tom Brown]

looks good. but means even more ebay spam on the SEs ;)


What is SE's?

[Tom Brown]

Ebay keeps raising their affiliate programs because more Sellers and buyers are leaveing Ebay every day and are boycotting Ebay. Ebay's commission and seller fee's are ridiculously high. Ebay doesn't tell the public these things.

But there are always Ebay newbies coming along that sign up.


Tom

[Cyclops]

>>>because more Sellers and buyers are leaving Ebay every day and are boycotting Ebay<<<

Not to mention the number of sellers suspended from ebay because their competition contacts ebay accusing them of selling unapproved items. ebay doesn't check, just automatically suspends the account if there is a complaint. To get your account back up and running can take weeks because you can't speak to a real person.....just autoresponders.

Cyclops.

[Tom Brown]

>>>because more Sellers and buyers are leaving Ebay every day and are boycotting Ebay<<<

Not to mention the number of sellers suspended from ebay because their competition contacts ebay accusing them of selling unapproved items. ebay doesn't check, just automatically suspends the account if there is a complaint. To get your account back up and running can take weeks because you can't speak to a real person.....just autoresponders.

Cyclops.


If you you even can get your Ebay account back after being suspended for no reason. Then you are LUCKY!!!. I know of people that are permamantly suspended from Ebay ridiculous reasons like what you just posted. Ebay has the worst Customer service and they suspend nice people for no good reason. You can always make another Ebay account with a different email address if you are suspended ;)

Ebay affiliate program sounds good, but I don't want to help Ebay succeed. Lots of people feel the same way I do and they boycotted Ebay permanantly.

[Tom Brown]

A bit? HA!

It has to mostly be registrations ... ok not more than 50%, but the bulk of the money coming from eBay affil comes from registrations in general.

$12.00 per signup
$0.10 per bid or "Buy It Now"

And I am sure shawn is in a higher tier so he is getting slightly more per signup now.


I wonder if they have to "Win" the bid in order of Ebay affiliates to get their $12.00? Or does the person just have to sign up and bid? Even if they person is outbid, then do we still get the $12.00?

[Mia]

Depends on the program. I believe it is sign up and one bid minium. That would be $12 signup + .10 bid. Higher tiers pay higher.

[digitalpoint]

They do not need to win the bid.

[THT]

yes - any bid counts

[harver]

yes - any bid counts
That leaves space for potential fraud.

[digitalpoint]

Well, eBay decided they want to give away more money, so they are upping their commission payout once again. :)

New User Active Registrations:

Before summer 2004:
1 - 249 = $5 each
250 - 499 = $8 each
500 - 999 = $10 each
1,000 - 1,999 = $13 each
2,000 - 4,999 = $14 each
5,000 - 9,999 = $15 each
10,000+ = $16 each

until October 31, 2004:
1 - 249 = $10 each
250 - 499 = $13 each
500 - 999 = $16 each
1,000 - 1,999 = $17 each
2,000 - 4,999 = $18 each
5,000 - 9,999 = $19 each
10,000+ = $20 each

until January 31, 2005:
1 - 249 = $12 each
250 - 499 = $16 each
500 - 999 = $20 each
1,000 - 1,999 = $24 each
2,000 - 4,999 = $26 each
5,000 - 9,999 = $28 each
10,000+ = $30 each

starting February 1, 2005:
1 - 499 = $20 each
500 - 999 = $25 each
1,000 - 1,999 = $30 each
2,000 - 3,499 = $35 each
3,500 - 4,999 = $40 each
5,000 - 7,499 = $42.50 each
7,500+ = $45 each

[l234244]

Cool, I will keep my fingers crossed for your ebay page to be re-indexed.

[john_loch]

Cool, I will keep my fingers crossed for your ebay page to be re-indexed.

Yeah, me too. I was quite chuffed to see you up there :)

Whatever happened anyway ?

Do you know why it was dropped ?

Cheers,

JL

[luisfernandez]

Is there really anyone out there left in the world that is not signed up with ebay? ;)

hehe, I didn't.

[maverick]

I dont think so... hehe... whoever I ask it already buying or selling on ebay ;)

[hulkster]

Jumping in a bit late, but this is kinda interesting by eBay - yea, while it seems EVERYONE has an account, it also seems like a move by them to further consolidate their monopoly position in the auction market - can't say I blame 'em - you want to be the #1 player in this area.

[Angus]

Is there a way to find out more stats as to what top 10 affiliates earn etc ?

[l234244]

I guess Shawn must have been close to the top 10 when his site was ranking number 5 in google, I doubt though he or the other top affiliates would share the statistics. Can not give all the secrets away :)

[digitalpoint]

If you made $500,000/month, that still would not put you in the top 10 (I never was anywhere remotely close to that). The top guys do it through PPC.

[l234244]

If you made $500,000/month, that still would not put you in the top 10 (I never was anywhere remotely close to that). The top guys do it through PPC.

Would be interesting to know what sort of monthly PPC budgets these guys have. Have you not tried PPC yet Shawn?

[Mia]

I've got a customer that does the PPC route. He does quite well. But from our dicussions it seems like he spends a lot. He makes a lot too. I'd rather go the low overhead route. It seems like you can do quite well spending almost nothing. I'd rather bring in X, than spend X and make X. I've already gone that route owning an ISP. I seem to take in what I spend. That's no fun.

[digitalpoint]

It's not based on anything concrete or any insider knowledge or anything, but I would guess that for the money they bring in, they spend probably about half in PPC. With eBay, it's a high cost of entry because of their tiered commission structure. High volume guys make 250% more commissions per transaction than the low volume guys. The minimum for the highest tiers would be 7,500 active registrations and 100,000 bids in a month... and works out to $362,500 in commissions. Could probably be achieved with a $150,000 (ish) PPC investment.

So unless you can commit to high volumes, it's not worth it... Without the tier system, the same numbers (7,500/100,000) would only give $160,000 in commissions.

[l234244]

....... interesting comments. I always thought the top affiliates for ebay and amazon where those involved in adware programs. For example, popular download sites kazaa etc.

[mudnik]

If you made $500,000/month, that still would not put you in the top 10 (I never was anywhere remotely close to that). The top guys do it through PPC.

Shawn, where do you get this info from?

Anyway, it seems the ebay affiliate program is currently restricted to people in the US only? (read it somewhere in the rules) Tried to sign up but got the application rejected. Shouldn't they open this up to the rest of the world? Most affiliate programs already accept international affiliates.

[riziko]

Anyway, it seems the ebay affiliate program is currently restricted to people in the US only?This page http://affiliates.ebay.com/join-program/ has sign-up links for Argentina, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Chile, Colombia, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom and Venezuela. Where are you from?

Ross

[mudnik]

Singapore. It ain't in there...

I thought those are the different ebay sites you can promote. You would still need to be a US resident to join the affiliate right?

[riziko]

I thought those are the different ebay sites you can promote. You would still need to be a US resident to join the affiliate right?Yeah I think they are the sites. I dont know why you think you have to be a US citizen. They just send you a cheque in US dollars and you convert it to your home currency.

Ross

[12FreeForums]

If you know where too look, you can earn $35.00 per registration with ebay and no tiers. Your users must sign up and bid on something within 30 days and you earn $35 for each one who does that.

[Juls]

12freeforum, why dont you tell us?

[digitalpoint]

If you know where too look, you can earn $35.00 per registration with ebay and no tiers. Your users must sign up and bid on something within 30 days and you earn $35 for each one who does that.
It would be better to go with the tiers, because you can make up to $45 per with the tiers.

[digitalpoint]

eBay is switching it up again... this time going to a completely different payout model (rev share instead of flat rates) starting October 1...

Monthly New User Active Registrations:
1 - 499 = $12 each
500 - 2,999 = $16 each
3,000+ = $20 each

Monthly Revenue Sharing:
$0 - $4,999.99 = 40%
$5,000 - $24,999.99 = 45.00%
$25,000 - $49,999.99 = 50.00%
$50,000 - $99,999.99 = 55.00%
$100,000 - $199,999.99 = 60.00%
$200,000 - $299,999.99 = 65.00%
$300,000+ = 70.00%

The rev share is based on money collected by eBay, not the selling price of the items (of course). This means you will only get paid on WINNING bids/buy it now (BIN). Also, the cookie duration for bid/BIN is going from 30 days to 7 days, but instead of just getting paid for one action, you will get paid for every winning bid/BIN within that period.

[dkalweit]

eBay is switching it up again... this time going to a completely different payout model (rev share instead of flat rates) starting October 1...

Monthly New User Active Registrations:
1 - 499 = $12 each
500 - 2,999 = $16 each
3,000+ = $20 each

Monthly Revenue Sharing:
$0 - $4,999.99 = 40%
$5,000 - $24,999.99 = 45.00%
$25,000 - $49,999.99 = 50.00%
$50,000 - $99,999.99 = 55.00%
$100,000 - $199,999.99 = 60.00%
$200,000 - $299,999.99 = 65.00%
$300,000+ = 70.00%

The rev share is based on money collected by eBay, not the selling price of the items (of course). This means you will only get paid on WINNING bids/buy it now (BIN). Also, the cookie duration for bid/BIN is going from 30 days to 7 days, but instead of just getting paid for one action, you will get paid for every winning bid/BIN within that period.

Do you know if we get paid on bids/buys or selling? Sellers are the ones who pay Ebay, so would we get paid for buyers purchasing the items? I guess I should dig up this program over at cj.com-- I wonder why I didn't see an Email about it...


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Derek

[Azam.biz]

What proportion of experienced net users already have an eBay account do you reckon?

Maybe it's not worth promoting them - as mentioned at the start of this thread don't a massive number of people already have an eBay account? Therefore you'll be sending visitors to them and not earn the registration fee...

[digitalpoint]

Do you know if we get paid on bids/buys or selling? Sellers are the ones who pay Ebay, so would we get paid for buyers purchasing the items? I guess I should dig up this program over at cj.com-- I wonder why I didn't see an Email about it...It's paid on bids/BIN, not selling. You get paid for buyers buying something (a percentage of the fees that eBay collects from the sellers).

[dkalweit]

It's paid on bids/BIN, not selling. You get paid for buyers buying something (a percentage of the fees that eBay collects from the sellers).

I've never really understood this-- particularly getting paid for un-succesful bids-- the same as a BIN, at that... Ebay should provide some reward for sending SELLERS to the service(other than the registration)...

Oh well, I guess only time will tell if revenue sharing will bring in more $$$ for me than registrations/bids/bins-- I get quite a few $.10 bids/BIN's for specific Ebay product searches I list on my site-- this bid/bin structure could work better than flat rate...


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Derek

[dkalweit]

What proportion of experienced net users already have an eBay account do you reckon?

Maybe it's not worth promoting them - as mentioned at the start of this thread don't a massive number of people already have an eBay account? Therefore you'll be sending visitors to them and not earn the registration fee...

That's what I always thought, but there's still people registering... Even those that aren't looking for 'Ebay registration' or simply 'ebay' on search engines... Getting paid for general bids/bins isn't too bad, either-- though the current $.10/flat seems low...


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Derek

[kokopelli]

eBay is switching it up again... this time going to a completely different payout model (rev share instead of flat rates) starting October 1...

Cool, we'll have to see how that goes!

[gunbuster]

The rev share is based on money collected by eBay, not the selling price of the items (of course). This means you will only get paid on WINNING bids/buy it now (BIN). Also, the cookie duration for bid/BIN is going from 30 days to 7 days, but instead of just getting paid for one action, you will get paid for every winning bid/BIN within that period.

My first reaction is that this sucks :p, 70% of eBay's revenue may be very little. Ebay's revenue comes from the listing fees -- which can be in the pennies for certain types of products. (Think dutch style auction where 50 items are sold)

I suppose it'll take a change in strategy -- less emphasis on ACRUs and more on delivering solid leads to sales.

[dkalweit]

My first reaction is that this sucks :p, 70% of eBay's revenue may be very little. Ebay's revenue comes from the listing fees -- which can be in the pennies for certain types of products. (Think dutch style auction where 50 items are sold)

I suppose it'll take a change in strategy -- less emphasis on ACRUs and more on delivering solid leads to sales.

Last time I sold on Ebay, insertion fees were $0.25/item minimum, and then there was something like a 5% charge on top of that(if the item sold). So, if I provided a lead that sold a $10 item at 40% sharing, it should be something like (.25*.4)+(10*.05*.4)=0.1+0.2=$.30. Cooincidentally, the $.25*.4 is 10 cents-- the current bid/BIN price... Maybe this is an all-good change(aside from the lowered ACRU rate)...


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Derek

Do you know if we get paid on bids/buys or selling? Sellers are the ones who pay Ebay, so would we get paid for buyers purchasing the items? I guess I should dig up this program over at cj.com-- I wonder why I didn't see an Email about it...


Why would someone give me a neg rep over this post, I wonder?


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Derek

[Mia]

Why would someone give me a neg rep over this post, I wonder?


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Derek

Because there are a lot of dirtballs on the forum that have nothing better to do. :)

My first reaction is that this sucks :p, 70% of eBay's revenue may be very little. Ebay's revenue comes from the listing fees -- which can be in the pennies for certain types of products. (Think dutch style auction where 50 items are sold)

I suppose it'll take a change in strategy -- less emphasis on ACRUs and more on delivering solid leads to sales.

Are you kidding? eBay makes a fortune off the seller, especially if the items sells. Those "pennies" add up real fast. Besides, I see a heck of a lot more bidding off my referral/affiliate pages than I do sign ups.

[dkalweit]

Are you kidding? eBay makes a fortune off the seller, especially if the items sells. Those "pennies" add up real fast. Besides, I see a heck of a lot more bidding off my referral/affiliate pages than I do sign ups.

I agree-- even though I had a record # of signups yesterday... I send them far more sales every day-- many of them BIN's... Small $2-20 purchases, but with this structure, I think I should see more $$$ from them...


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Derek

[affbusiness]

Thats my kind of increase- time to start working for ebay..



I agree! eBay deserve a real chance! :)

[SiCK]

If you use the API and target just the featured items, you will make a killing, last time I ran a featured listing it cost to $109.00 list it.

[Such Great Heights]

I currently feel that the rev sharing idea by eBay will be a good thing for us affiliates.

I wonder how Shawn will prevail in particular. Shawn do you mostly get ACRUs or actual bids and BINs?

I know that our eBay commisions are a lot of the 10 cents (bids or BINs) and a ACRU or two for every 20 or so bids of BINs. So I think this rev share will increase the bids and BINs to a reasonable commision per winning bid that will even out the lower ACRU price. But now of course people will try to show featured auctions and expensive items so they get more commissions.

I'm just a little worried about how many actual winning bids we will refer to eBay. I hope the people we refer are serious about the auctions they want and will make sure they win. Because it sounds like affiliates wont get any commision if someone bids, but doesn't get the winning bid on the auction.

Again I am very interested to see how this first month will turn out. I'm hoping for more money on our end just because of the structure of payments, but who knows for sure?
I believe Shawn has a higher frequency of eBay commisions per day so I wonder how the actual payouts will be; higher? lower? about the same?

Can't wait to see. :)

[digitalpoint]

My ACRU to my total bid/BIN ratio is about 1:27. The rev share thing wasn't done to save money for eBay, instead reward those that drive more valuable traffic. So most affiliates should benefit under the new terms. The ones that will make less money are ones like incentive based programs (like they ask people to go bid on something for $0.01 and never win the auction anyway).

[mdmsports]

If you have the type of site that can promote fancy cars and real estate, you could probably do real well. My ratio of bids/bins to ACRU is pretty high, I don't have a chart, but I get better than 1 ACRU per 10 bids.

So, the cut in pay from 20.00 to 12.00 is a bit of a shock, but we'll see how the bid prices work out, it's impossible to know how many non-winning bids we've been getting dimes for, as far as I can tell.

I suppose I should send more traffic to eBay motors rather than where I'm doing. And I'm sure that's exactly what eBay is trying to accomplish.

[nikolay]

The rev share is based on money collected by eBay, not the selling price of the items (of course). This means you will only get paid on WINNING bids/buy it now (BIN). Also, the cookie duration for bid/BIN is going from 30 days to 7 days, but instead of just getting paid for one action, you will get paid for every winning bid/BIN within that period.
does that mean that active registration is considered to be so only when user buys something? simple bids are not working anymore? if yes, it sucks

[digitalpoint]

No... registrations beocme active even if the user makes a failed bid attempt (that was one of my first questions when I heard about it a few months ago).

[NetMidWest]

You know, there's a thread about favorite affiliate programs, and I read it. I was suprised to see several that I had signed up for long ago and tried, but decided that they did not work. Some were in their infancy, and I was uncertain they were worth the trouble, or would ever pay. Some I signed up for so long ago that if you said 'SEO' you got a reply of 'HUH?'. And there were no seo tools, data feeds, etc. to help out... lucky if they had any variety of images to use.

I compulsively save the signup emails, I guess I need to go check and see if I ever did register as an affiliate with ebay. Looks tasty.

I could have probably raked in some bucks just sticking it out all this time... SEO or not.:(

[kirby009]

I made a couple of .11 cent deals. I guess i should try harder. w/ this ebay:)

[Kuraptka]

In my opinion, I think the eBay affiliate program is quite mediocre compared to others. The commission you recieve is a fraction of eBay's revenue from the sale, not the actual price the item sold for. eBay's revenue for a sale is very miniscule - it's what 1% of the final bid price? So, essentially, your commission rate for a successful sale is LESS than 1%. That's awful! The norm is 10%. Amazon's is 5-8%. eBay makes money because they have tons and tons of these auctions, and their revenue adds up very quickly.

To make matters worse, selling an eBay item on your website is not easier than selling an Amazon product at all. In fact, it's probably harder since that person has to compete with other bidders , unless it's a BIN.

I've made 2 sales this month in eBay for a pathetic $.10 commission. I've made 10 sales in all so far for $2.50 commission. The only way to make money with eBay is by getting sign-ups, which is difficult now. I mean, who doesn't have an eBay account nowadays?

Dump eBay, and use Adsense or another affiliate program instead. The entire business model of eBay just doesn't translate well into a good affiliate program. There's just not enough profits to go around.

[dkalweit]

In my opinion, I think the eBay affiliate program is quite mediocre compared to others. The commission you recieve is a fraction of eBay's revenue from the sale, not the actual price the item sold for. eBay's revenue for a sale is very miniscule - it's what 1% of the final bid price? So, essentially, your commission rate for a successful sale is LESS than 1%. That's awful! The norm is 10%. Amazon's is 5-8%. eBay makes money because they have tons and tons of these auctions, and their revenue adds up very quickly.

It also depends on what you're selling. If you're trying to sell old/collectors items that aren't available new in stores anymore, Ebay may be one of the only choices available. On my NES site, I'm able to show Ebay auctions for the specific video game they're viewing-- these games were in stores 20 years ago, and aren't even found on the used game shelves most places anymore...


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Derek

[digitalpoint]

I've made 2 sales this month in eBay for a pathetic $.10 commission. I've made 10 sales in all so far for $2.50 commission. The only way to make money with eBay is by getting sign-ups, which is difficult now. I mean, who doesn't have an eBay account nowadays?

Dump eBay, and use Adsense or another affiliate program instead. The entire business model of eBay just doesn't translate well into a good affiliate program. There's just not enough profits to go around.You would be surprised how many people don't have eBay accounts these days... Also, eBay's affiliate program (IMO) is by FAR the best one out there. I know for a fact people are hitting the top payout tiers by a lot (consistently) each month (which works out to a $270,000 check at the minimum payout for top tier).

http://affiliates.ebay.com/program%2Ddetails/compensation/

eBay's pricing structure is changing next week too... (see this thread)

eBay is all a numbers game. You need to drive a LOT of traffic to make it work... if your end users are low volume, vertical market users, other programs might be better. But if you have a ton of generic users eBay can be quite profitable.

[stumpyPete]

Also, eBay's affiliate program (IMO) is by FAR the best one out there.
I agree with this. I run about 40 eBay sites and do quite well with them. I promote mostly higher ticket items (got a commission on a Ferrari last year ;) www.ferrariz.com ) and I also try to stick to stuff that isn't sold retail anymore. This really cuts down on the competition in Adwords and allows me to pickup cheap clicks - most are under 7 cents.

The best part of promoting eBay is the infinite number of themed sites you can create - there is so much stuff being sold out there, you can always find new niches to promote. Star Wars action figures anyone?:cool:

[Connections]

how do i get affiliated with this one?

I need this kind of affiliation for one of my sites

[wmburg]

how do i get affiliated with this one?

I need this kind of affiliation for one of my sites

At CJ.com.

[successfirst]

So can you promote individual auctions that you personally pick to promote? Or do you not have any control over what particular auctions are promoted on your site?

Thanks

[wmburg]

So can you promote individual auctions that you personally pick to promote? Or do you not have any control over what particular auctions are promoted on your site?

Thanks

You can add your affiliate ID on to any eBay URL.

[successfirst]

Cool! In addition to promoting any eBay URL, I can also have eBay automatically show a list revelant URLs with my affiliate link in it based on a certain category, correct?

[wmburg]

I'm not 100% what you are asking. Are you asking if you link to a category with your ID then every auction in that category will have your ID too? Probably not, but it doesn't matter. I believe that once you send a visitor to eBay with your ID they will set a cookie that is good for 7 days. That means that you should earn commission on anything the user bids on/buys for 7 days.

http://affiliates.ebay.com/tools/linking/

[successfirst]

Sorry... what I mean is if I want to promote show all auctions selling Dell Computers on my site, is there a way I can have eBay show all of the current auctions for Dell Computers on my site with my affiliate link embedded in the link?

Thanks

[wmburg]

Yeah, but it will take some programming on your part. eBay offers RSS. You'll have to parse it. Actually, there are probably scripts out there. You'll just have to look.

[successfirst]

Ok, thank you.

[BlackTactics]

how is the affilate prgram now? i see the thread is old. just curious.

[itismejoshy2]

not to bring up old post but eBay no longer is part of CJ, and i have been a long time affiliate but now i can't even get accepted into the eBay program? have tried like 20 times....always get denied!

[Mia]

It works better than CJ did, the reporting is accurate, fast, and detailed. And I've yet to see any indication of shady practices or fudging.

[itismejoshy2]

wow, that would be awesome! not if i can only get in!!